Just Got Done 3 Days Ago Taking Azithromycin

Posted over a year ago

I have swelled in the stomach pants are to tight I cry all the time and still feel like crap. was put on it for pneumonia did not know about antacids but I take Pepcid daily for heart burn now I read should not have taken. Has anyone had these side effects??/

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Burpiecicerchi - I just noticed that you posted this a year ago so it looks like you won't be reading this but maybe someone else will. I too was on Z-pack (Azithromycin) for Pneumonia, but unfortunately for me the pneumonia comes back after 10 days or so of finishing the meds. December 22, 2010 went to ER at local hospital and they gave me Z-pack and on January 12, 2011 went back to ER for the same reason couldn't take a deep breath cuz it felt like my ribs under breast was ripping. They gave me Z-pack again and then I went to specialist and he took a cat scan and said all was okay and then he treated me for asthma?? Then went to hospital on April 22, 2011 and they admitted me with fluid on the lung and so on. So far pneumonia is gone, but I feel it coming back again. Same pains in my back sort of on the right side. Well I started getting this tight feeling in my belly--back in April. The pain is exactly in the middle right between my breast bone and the belly button okay. I even measured it, it is 5" above my belly button. It feels worse when I first get up from sleeping. When I wake up and go to stand up I can't stand up I am hunched over and it feels like I am being forced to stretch which is an unvoluntary response to this tightening feeling in my belly. I don't feel it in my abdomine or lower belly, it is just in my upper stomach. It feels like I did 100 situps. You know that feeling when you exercise too hard and your muscles start to burn? That's the feeling I get. I thought that maybe it was from the pneumonia because I was forcing the air out of my lungs. I would wake up from the sound of me pushing the air out of my lungs, so I thought it was because I was using mucsles that I don't normally use. As for the Pepcid I take prilosec (same type of drug) and I did read on the insert of the z-pack not to take any antacids -- so I didn't, but it's funny that you and I both had pneumonia and both have that tight feeling in the tummy. I sure hope you read this and please right back and let me know if yours went away and anything else you know or found out about it. Okay? Thanks alot. Good luck and God Bless you.
Barb